Violin.



J. E. L. WINEGOPF.

VIOLIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.14, 1907.

Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

assets That end of the lever which comnnniicates JOHN EUGENE LEE wrnncorr, or WHITEVILLE, none CAROLINA.

VIOLIN.

nachos;

Application filed January 14,

T 0 all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that l, JoHN EUGENE'LEE l w'ixncoir, a citizen of the United States. and residing at \Vhiteville, in the county of Columbus and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Violin, of which the following is a specification.

.This invention has relation to musical instruments, and it consists in the navel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a musical instrument which involves a. vibrat l ing sounding member. or a series of such 5 members and a sounding board,and means for l l l l transn'iittiiig vibrations from the vibratory members to the sounding board without subjecting the sounding board to the pressure of the vibratory members. The parts are so arranged that thcvibrations of'tlie sounding members are magnified as they are transl mitted to the sounding board. i p The means for transmitting the vibrations from the sounding members to the sounding board consists of a lever which is pivotally mounted on the body of the instruii'ient, and i which, at one end, has communication with the sounding members. and at its other end has communication with the sounding board.

with the sounding board is liaiger than that end of the lever which communicates with the sounding members. The lever is coun-si terbalanced upon its pivot or fulcrum by l means of the sounding members.

The instrument is provided with a body which is located belowv the sounding members and which is divided by a sounding board into resonators of different sizes and which have portlioles of different sizes. The object of so dividing the interior of the body and using the sounding board as apartition, is to provide resonators adapted to respond to and magnify the tones of high and low pitch, respectively; That is to say, the larger resonator affects the low tones and the smaller resonator affects the high tones, so

tones are augmented by their respective resonators of the set of resonators.

In the form of the application of-the iiivention, as shown in the drawings, a violin is more closely followedin outline than any other instrument. However, the principle involved in the present invention may be ad Specification of Letters Patent.

j the neck a in the usual manner.

that the volumes of both the high and low i i I i Patented on; 12. ions.

1907a Serial in. 352,469.

vz'iiitage'oiisly applied to all kinds of stringed instruments,which employ a sounding member subjected to tensioinand which produces sound by vibration. It, therefore, follows that the shape of the parts of the body of tie instruments, or their resemblance to parts of other instruments, is immaterial in carrying into elfe'ct the principles involved in the invention.

' In the accompanying drawings :-Figure l is a side elevation of the instrument: Fig. 2 is a top plan new of the same: Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the body of they instrument, cut on the line 33 of Fig. l.

as illustrated in the drawings, the neck a is provided with a shoulder b, which merges or joins with the frame-piece The, fin: ger-board (2 is attached to the neck a and overlaps that portion of the franie-piece E which joins with said neck. The frame-piece E is provided with an opening d in which are located parallel lugs e. The bar B is pivotally mounted at D between the lugs e and the bridge A is mounted on the upper end of the said bar B. The strings f pass over the upper edge of the bridge A. and are connected at one end with one end of the frame-piece E and at their other ends with The body K is connected with the frame-piece E by means of the hooks ll. The said body K is hollow and its interior is divided into reso' nators G and l by the soiinding board F,

- which is vertically disposed within the said body and extends throughout the length thereof. The lower M 3 provided with a post 1 the side of the said sounding board F. The board I is not located in the middle of the id B ofthe bar B is which bears against body I: but located at one side of a nie dian line passing through the said body. The resonator G is of greater volume than the resonator I, and-the body K is provided with an outlet opening G which communicates with the resonator G and an outlet opening 1 which communicates with the interior of the resonator The resonator outlet G issmaller than the outlet 1 The sounding-board F is preferablymade of 0 strips of wood. secured together with the grain extending in different directions. in other words, the said board is of a lanai: nated character.

From the above description, it is obvious neck a and tho fizinio iooe to tho tension 01 am but is not subjzoi'ed to tho sti' hos, the vibratory qualities mm body are. not impairoo B3 once to 3 the drmvings, it will i .1 on that that portion of tho bar 3 which located above the pivotal point of the bar 2 ii'lch pl'OjGCiLS down into the body,

the bridge A and the bar footed or o waives ommmijing from thowiniio tho higher time: are mnpliiieci by win e1 mum-ting from the resonator Thus the sounds are iIlC1621S9/Ci in vohuno.

.ving; described my invci on, new, and ire to semio about, is: An instrument comprisi ons onoi l lugs, a hollow body, a soundi board 10- oiitod therein, a iovoi' fulm'mned oxtoi'iol'ly of the body and passing through an oponiii in. (he some, and :uiaptod no t imismii suing 'viin'mions 11o boni'd. Y

2. An instrument oomprisnq' body. a .--roun ling board 3 A low? pivoiuliy mounted upon the boo; passing through. on opening in the szmio having Contact with the sounding; board, aim Lensionod soundpi'odw, having oontuui with the 1mm and (RIlliiUY-biliillioiHLQ iii-o sumo upon its pivot. 3. in instmnmnb comprising); 1 iHHl' a smnuling ixmrd iovnimi SiIQII-Zlifl a, iii'aiiy mounted upon the body um? i 4 contact with the in); i a nzx im-or i12|\'i'\ q('()1'lt21 t viii) i An 1 rumoni, wompi'ising a body. :1 sounding bomrd Jo-oniod than pi\'oizx]] mount-'34 1. M.)

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